Could the Ladywood High School campus hold another Catholic high school later this fall? A group of parents and alumnae are working to do just that.

The group, calling itself Project Blazer, has begun reaching out to families with students currently enrolled and to perspective families with middle school students going to high school next year to see if there is interest in keeping a Catholic high school at the Ladywood campus, 14680 Newburgh, in Livonia.

The school, which is under control of the Felician Sisters, is scheduled to close at the end of the school year, something that was announced publicly in December.

Since then, there have been some concerned parents and alumnae that hope the campus can continue as a place for Catholic education, even without the Ladywood insignia.

Now, the group is gauging parental interest for continuing a high school at the site, the first step in any process that could result in a school remaining, said Maureen Fay, a Ladywood alumna who's helping with Project Blazer. The group hopes to submit a proposal to the Felician Sisters with a plan later this spring.

She said they need about a 90-percent commitment rate from current or potential families in order to get an organization called Healey Education Foundation possibly involved in getting a plan submitted to the Felician Sisters to propose another Catholic high school at the site.

"We need to look at upcoming eighth-graders who were accepted, which is a challenge because those are all over," she said.

Those parents interested in giving feedback can do so by emailing the group at projectblazer.lhs@gmail.com.

If a plan were to be submitted to the Felician Sisters, they would then decide what would fit in that location.

Fay said while their group is hopeful such a plan could move forward and potentially be approved, it's no guarantee and families with students enrolled at Ladywood should have a plan in place for their child for the 2018-19 school year that does not involve the Livonia school.

Ladywood, which has operated since 1950, boasts more than 6,000 alumnae. It currently enrolls close to 200 students from four different counties.

Fay said a proposal to the Healey Education Foundation, a group known for investing in Catholic schools across the country, is in the works right now as long as the parental and alumnae support is there.

"We're doing a draft right now, assuming we get that 90 percent," she said.

Fay said the group got positive reactions from a meeting they held Wednesday: of the 41 responses they got from families in attendance, just one said they wouldn't be interested in moving forward with a proposal.

The group would submit plans to the Felician Sisters later this spring about how they would try to install another school on the site, even potentially without the Ladywood name, and wait for the order to decide what to do with the property.

Ladywood alumna Leslie Hinkle said the biggest reason her family moved to the Livonia area from Grand Rapids was so that her daughter could receive a quality education, eventually at Ladywood. She isn't old enough to attend the high school yet, but Hinkle was saddened at the thought her daughter would not be able to have the same experience she did.

"I can't imagine our daughter not being a part of that," she said. "It can't end now. This isn't how it's supposed to be."

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